Researchers at Oregon State University are recruiting citizen scientists to join a network enabling air and water exposure monitoring in their communities. This site will allow scientists to develop a profile, perform online training, request a sampling site, and join in on local events. This site will also manage equipment loans, sample submission, and allow you to view your data. For more information, please visit the Citizen Science website. If you are interested becoming a citizen scientist, please sign up for updates and we will send you a newsletter when we open up registration for online training.

Environmental Preparedness & Resilience Empowering People is a citizen science project which provides resources based on a low cost passive sampling platform. These samplers can be used to evaluate air quality and your personal environmental exposures. By leveraging resources developed for our Citizen Science project, we are recruiting and training citizen scientist to use our passive sampling platform to produce useful data prior to and post environmental disaster. Please visit eprep.oregonstate.edu to learn more and sign up.

Only days after Harvey, OSU SRP researchers partnered with Texas A&M, UTHealth School of Public Health, and Baylor College of Medicine. The goal of the partnership is to place personal samplers on individuals living in and near hurricane-damaged areas. The passive sampling wristband is the perfect tool. It doesn’t need batteries or the internet. Additionally, the wristband can detect over 1,500 different chemicals.